dub3 card · www.thepalace.com
The Palace (1995)
Chat as a smiley in a painted room, then click a door and walk into another.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 2
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Dead Links
What it does
On reveal: +2 Power to your other cards here.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 2 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.
The site, in 1995
Software for graphical chat rooms called palaces, where users appear as avatars over painted backdrops and talk in comic-style speech bubbles.
Jim Bumgardner created it at Time Warner, and its free server software let anyone host a palace on a home PC. Its users invented Dollz, the dress-up doll avatars, and its peak around 1999 brought palaces for Korn and South Park.
In 1995: The website opened to the public in November; by default each visitor appeared as a round smiley face.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Dead Links: Gone, but not forgotten. Mostly forgotten.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1995 page.
Put it on your site
Run The Palace, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1995. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1995, then plays a short scene. Want The Palace in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
